yet, it's certainly important to know how and when to end something/anythingpronouncing it "dead" is usually not a good way to achieve that effectformal ending is more difficult specially when you have achieved a certain level of notoriety

This was there an ultimate provocation. One is born 'artist', as one is born black, yellow, white… The rest (success, career…) is especially a question of circumstances, ambition, opportunity (ies)…

I do not give up art, but with the capitalist system in which art is involved. Satisfaction of the need to be recognized (and loved!), by the objects, even virtual, that we produce, is a perpetual fight. This fight for the "paraître" is all the opposite of freedom.